RE: You will never make money preventing others from making money!

"...useless features like the downvote, that just cause war..."

You really have a flawed grasp of society. War may be the most fundamental cause of eusociality in H. sapiens. It's anything but useless. In terms of profit, war is probably the most profitable function of government, provably the largest industry in financial terms today, and surpassing agriculture sometime in prehistory.

Consider that flags return VP to the rewards pool, and further that the most substantial stakes on the platform extract ~90% of rewards +/- 10%, and you will see the financial potential of flags and flagwars to increase the ROI of the most substantial stakes in Steem.